SUICIDAL MANIA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 4011, 13 January 1892, Page 2

SUICIDAL MANIA.

Nino Casosia MolMrns Vithln a "WeekMejjjourne, January I. An alarming nuinVer of suicides have t».ken place in and around Melbourne during !he past week. Lawrence Lcvv, a well kuowri auctioneer and estatft agent, who liad suffered enormous losses from spoon-, lation in real estate, was found drowned in the Yarra. The Bank had recently, stopped bis overdraft, his favorite son had just died, and he was very depressed in mind, Selina Palmer, aged 25, a lady help in tho employ of Mr Alfred Dumpier, theatrical manager, formed a strong attachment for a scenic artist at the Alexandra theatre, and because her love was Dot reciprocated, ended her life hy taking arsenical poison,

Joseph Walter Burley, a middleaged man, an importer and agent, hung himself at his residence; He had been in bad health, and was a victim to melancholia, A bricklayer named Thomas Good, who was suffering from the same malady, ended his days by jumping into the Yarra. Mary Ann Smith, a young married woman, James Guarin, a wharf labourer, and Henry James Beeden, each of whom had been drinking heavily, out their throats, but arS still alive. Francis Key, an inmate of the Boaconslield inebriate asylum, shot himself ia the head on Sunday. Ho is known to have been in financial diflh culties when he became (voluntarily) ii patient, and it is surmised that these with other troubles prayed on his mind, Deceased was about 47 years of age, and leaves a widow and family, T, Falloou, a well-known figure in Melbourne commercial life, blew hia brains out with a revolver. He had returned from Englaud live weeks ago to find that his financial affairs were in nn involved state. A large building in which bo was interest, d iu Collins Street, had turned out an unprofitable speculation, and ho is also believed to have lost money in tram shares and other ventures. An unusually touching incident is that his wife returned to Australia the same morning, only to receive the news of the calamity that had overtaken her a few hours afterwards,